5 lesser known facts about Agni-V

The solid-fuelled missile, which will bring the whole of China under its strike envelope, is truly special in more ways than one.

1. Accuracy

Agni-V incorporate advanced technologies involving ring laser gyroscope and accelerometer for navigation and guidance. This means that it can hit the target with an accuracy of 10 meters.

2. Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles

Agni-V has Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles with each missile being capable of carrying 2–10 separate nuclear warheads. This means that each warhead can be assigned to a different target, alternatively, two or more warheads can be assigned to one target. So MIRVs come handy in neutralising any enemy missile defense system.

3. The portability

This 50 ton missile is quite easy to store and swift transport by road, rail or water because of its canister-launch missile system.

4. The submarine version

There are reports that a submarine launched version of the Agni-V is being worked on.

5. Indigenously developed missile

More than 80 per cent of the missile is indigenous, except for the electronic components which needs to be imported